Conference Session

Teaching Effective Communications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Anthony Marchese; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha

curriculums, which consistently show that writing helps students understand coursecontent significantly better. One such study of the use of journal writing documented ameasurable improvement in student understanding of engineering material and,moreover, a measurable shift in student attitude towards the writing assignments,suggesting that the students themselves recognized a valid purpose for the writing. 7Another study also found evidence that an intensive focus on journal writing had animportant impact on student learning. Close analysis of the journal writing revealed thatstudents gained much more than practice with writing skills. Through their writtenresponses to the textbooks for their design course, students experienced a change in

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ronna Turner; Greg Salamo

insight that is quickly gained by the studentsis that the most difficult task for them will not be in tutoring a fellow Cohort member that ishaving academic problems, but is instead trusting his Cohort colleagues enough to ask for helpwhen his own academic performance is declining.Creating a true group atmosphere in the academic environment is difficult, primarily becauseeach student’s curriculum and research is aimed at a very personal and specific individual goal.Yet the creation of a trusting group atmosphere with in the Cohort is the single necessaryelement for this graduate program method to succeed. Trust in this case is accomplished througha ongoing series of group activities designed to first create a sense of shared experiences and

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Byron Newberry

lifelong learning (2.7) · Knowledge of contemporary issues (2.2)In addition to feedback on the course obtained during and at the end of the course, there is amechanism in place to obtain feedback at the end of a student’s educational experience. On exitsurveys given to graduating engineering seniors, the junior design course is frequently cited inresponse to both the item, “List two engineering courses you feel were most useful for yourengineering education,” and the item, “Describe one or two of your best experiences in theDepartment.” While the course is challenging and time consuming, students tend to view it as aseminal experience in their overall educational process.IX. DiscussionThere are several heuristically deduced benefits that the

Conference Session

Information Guidance/Navigation/Control

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra H. Kajiwara; Lisa Taber; Cecilia Mullen

they change formatand/or searching protocol. This relearning has also been made more complex as databasesproliferate and merge.Effective researching methodologies are not intuitive and the researching skills that highschool students bring with them as incoming freshmen (or that community college studentsbring with them as transfer students) cannot prepare them for the complexity of today’sinformation retrieval. Students should not rely on chance to locate their supporting literature,and practicing engineers cannot afford to overlook any relevant documents germane to theirresearch and design. Engineers must be able to systematically review their literature in acomprehensive and efficient fashion.BackgroundGuides to the Literature have been

Conference Session

ECE Design, Capstone, and Engr. Practice

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vamsy Chodavarapu; Bill Kirkey; Alexander Cartwright; Pratibha Gopalam

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”For graduate students the main emphasis is on the design of complex systems such asCD-ROM's, scanners and displays so that they are prepared for the engineering-levelpositions in this exciting area. In the initial course, “Optical Communications (EE566)”the students do a research project and submit a report as their final course project. Theprojects mainly deal with the design criteria and requirements for the current generationof optical systems used in communications, networking, devices, and various otherapplications. During the course the students learn the design aspects and principles ofvarious photonic

Conference Session

Materials and Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjeev Khanna

disciplinesin a course on Welding Engineering and Design of Welded Structures by:1. Creating courseware for use at the upper senior level and developing it further by taking advantage of recent innovations in scientific research and instructional technology;2. Laying the foundation for developing a new graduate course that provides for an integration and synthesis of mechanics, materials technology, manufacturing and design;CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENTThe new course seeks to emphasize on the relationship between applied mechanics and materialsscience while teaching the science of welding and the total design of welded structures. As willbe evident from the course content, it is an interdisciplinary course covering areas of mechanics,materials science

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Aller; Andrew Kline

teamwork, ethics, and the societalcontexts of engineering work, situating these activities within an industry setting gives meaningand motivation to assignments.This paper reports on the structure and mechanisms by which industry has influenced andparticipated in a chemical engineering capstone design course. The need for such participation,the goals and structure of the design project, and the benefits realized by both students andindustry, will be discussed. Findings on how effectively such a collaboration can address ABETEC2000 criteria are presented.The Need to Involve Industry and Practice in DesignA number of researchers use activity theory—that learning happens through immersion in acommunity’s activities—to account for the ways in which

Conference Session

Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Keating

engineers grow as lifelonglearners, creators and leaders of new technology development to meet societal needs. Whereas manydistance graduate education programs have extended research-based graduate curricula to off-campusengineers in industry, graduate curricula often have not been designed specifically to match the growthneeds of engineers relevant to the practice of engineering and the leadership of technology developmentfor continuous innovation. A systemic deficiency in graduate engineering education exists across thenation. Because of this deficiency, the nation’s graduate engineers have been inadequately educated toassume engineering leadership roles and U.S. innovative capacity for competitiveness has declined. More than ever it is

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

presents how the whole researchprogram was planned and conducted, the details of the projects selected for the students, andprocedures used to evaluate the impact of the project. This paper will help others in planningsimilar experiences for engineering undergraduate students.I. Introduction This paper describes the experiences provided in a Site for undergraduate research in"Structural Engineering" in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at theUniversity of Cincinnati (UC), Cincinnati, Ohio. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates(REU) Site was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The purpose of this REUSite was to encourage talented undergraduates to enroll in graduate school by exposing them toresearch

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman; Gordon Kingsley

challenge of the GK-12 initiative is to design a program that best advances themultiple goals of the program:1. To broaden the education of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate students to include intensive experiences in educational pedagogy and process;2. To encourage the participation of STEM faculty and students in the difficult issues facing K- 12 educators through the nurturing of university-school partnerships;3. To assist K-12 teachers in their endeavor to improve classroom instruction; and4. To help schools improve K-12 student achievement in STEM.The first of these goals is accomplished in STEP through the graduate-Fellow summer trainingprogram detailed below and through the direct interaction of the

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Short

fororganizational alignment, communication, and goal setting. In practice, however, claims ofunfairness can center upon the individuality of the objectives [21]. While one researcher mayhave only one patent application resulting in millions of dollars of product sales towards a goalof three, another may have four worthless applications toward a goal of two. This exampleshows the difficulty in setting and evaluating measurable goals.MBO as applied to scientists, engineers, and technologists can have suboptimizing effects. In aneffort to set measurable objectives some researchers and engineers have opted for measurementaccording to quantity of writing, number of designs sent to production, and square feet ofdrawings completed. These goals, although

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Grant; Ronald Welch

thenecessary materials to complete their design for two timber bridges capable of supporting foottraffic and an ATV loaded with equipment to maintain the historic redoubt.In order to make this project a reality, the students had to both employ practices and utilizeresources that are valuable to engineers. Specifically, they: · conducted a reconnaissance, · surveyed the work area, · developed a three-dimensional map of the area of interest using a computer based terrain analysis program, · coordinated with outside agencies to gain support for the project, · lobbied DHPW to provide skilled technical support and funding to support the work, · constructed a combined 23 feet of timber bridges capable of supporting over 1,500

Conference Session

Instructional Technology--What Works

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Kanabar; Rumen Stainov; Tanya Zlateva; Eric Braude

- Page 7.685.12 need commercial breaks.” Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering EducationSeveral researchers conclude that students do become unfocussed or overwhelmed by thefreedom of distance education. It is difficult to follow an instructor even in a live settingfor more than 30 minutes before drifting away. At a distance, the students can get lostmore frequently. Course design and instructor training could make a big difference here.Substantial effort might need to be placed in training distance education instructors topresent new teaching skills and leverage the tools correctly.What features of the

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education · To integrate conceptual and theoretical knowledge with practice in the engineering and management professions.The structure developed for the program provided for a two-summer intensive experience forstudents majoring either in one of the five engineering departments at Bucknell (Chemical, Civiland Environmental, Computer, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering) or in Management orAccounting, with the goal of making available to Bucknell students a learning experience thatbridges the disciplines of engineering and management. The two summers of the program wereconstructed around on-campus course and project work for students who have completed theirsophomore year and an

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

capstone design project, three teams of 1 st-class midshipmen (seniors majoring in oceanengineering at the U.S. Naval Academy) set about to identify and design an ocean energy systemto compete, at least conceptually, with Navy contractors. These teams explored various renew-able energy sources such as ocean thermal, wave, and offshore wind energy. In four-monthstime, each team researched the alternatives and developed a concept design for its selectedenergy source. Results were presented to a Review Panel consisting of Navy representatives andocean engineering professionals. Brief details of this capstone experience and educational oppor-tunities in renewable ocean energies at the U.S. Naval Academy are shared later in the paper.Past developments

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

– The First-Year Summer Experience (Track One) is designed to be a ten-day residentialorientation program for first-year female students entering engineering, mathematics, computerscience or physical science at the University of Maryland (UM). During this program, studentsinteract with five Faculty Mentors, five RISE Graduate Fellows, five RISE UndergraduateFellows, members of the Women in Engineering Program staff and BESTEAMS (a team trainingresearch center) faculty resulting in a successful introduction to engineering and the sciences.Students also network with participants in the RISE – Summer Research Teams program foradditional exposure to women who are enthusiastic about pursing STEM degrees. The focus ofthe orientation is to address

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maya Place; Markus Flury; Jennifer Shaltanis; Geoff Puzon; Brent M. Peyton; James Petersen; Candis Claiborn

Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationin a research project. The goal is for the graduate to guide the student in research methods,technical practices, and writing skills. The only defined project requirements are thedevelopment of a written manuscript and presentation of the work in a poster presentation, bothof which are completed at the end of the session. The graduate mentor otherwise designs thewhole program for the student. In this program not only do graduates employ their technicalskills; they also become more experienced in leadership and authority. The mentoring proves tobe good practice for graduates in teaching and supervising others in research.5.4. Concluding Student RemarksStudents gain vicarious understanding

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Barnes; Ian Pashby; Anne Gibbons

asked to consider the impact of this collaborative relationship on their research efforts.As a result a number of issues were raised and these are summarised below (Tables 1 & 2).Table 1 Positive Aspects of Pursuing Post-graduate Research in Collaboration with IndustryPositive Aspects of Collaborative ResearchIndustrialists have maintained a check on the industrial relevance of the researchCollaboration allowed for industrial relevance whilst maintaining the potential for doctorate levelresearchLearned consider ably from expertise & experience provided by industrial partnersResearch results have been published in journals (with consent of industrial partners)Collaboration provided opportunities for valuable on -site visits and access to

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Batill

: Provide the opportunity for the students to innovate and express individual creativity.The product design simulation described in this paper is structured in such a manner as toattempt to best achieve these goals. The course contains very little formal instruction and most ofthe student-faculty interaction is one-on-one. There are 6 hours each week of dedicated “designstudio time” during which the students work with the instructor, graduate teaching assistants andtechnical consultants. The students are encouraged to try to exploit the technical skills developedin their previous courses as they develop concepts and work to demonstrate the technicalfeasibility of their ideas. Significant emphasis is placed upon: Gathering quantitative information

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cary Fisher; John Feland

academicenvironment with a degraded climate causing negative impacts to student learning andsatisfaction.3) Improved ties between theory and practice, as well as understanding of design methodology incontextAs with much of engineering education, there was a marked gap between the students mappingof theory to practice. The design methods taught in class along with the analytical tools coveredin previous courses were not fully integrated into the students' problem solving processes.Students are hungry to start cutting metal. In the past, the formal design methods wereintroduced to the students in a prescribed sequence. Each time a tool was introduced it was notput in context of a greater design process, only as something that had to follow the previousprocess

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht; Lasich Debra; Barbara Moskal

order to retain more women within this field, a better understandingis needed of the female experience during the engineering design team process.Recognizing this need, the National Science Foundation's Activities for Women and Girls inScience, Engineering & Mathematics program has sponsored the Engineering Design Teams:Influence of Gender Composition on the Decision-Making Process project (EHR-9979444) at theColorado School of Mines (CSM). This project seeks to better understand the interactions thattake place between men and women during the team decision making process in the DesignEngineering Practices Introductory Course Sequence (EPICS). Design EPICS is a sequence ofrequired first and second year courses at CSM in engineering design

Conference Session

ET Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gray

: Selection of the technology and the manner in which it is used is critical to realizing the potential benefits. Technology is not a solution unto itself. Know what goals are to be accomplished and then seek the technology to best deliver these goal (p. 52).E-learning Methodology Brandon Hall and Jacques LeCavalier (2000) have colabretated to perform an extensiveresearch study to identify best practices used by leaders in e-learning. This research studyincluded surveys of 5,000 industry professionals in the search for “world-class” examples of e-learning within organizations. Based on the results of the survey and information obtained fromindustry publications and other forms of communication, 11 organizations were identified

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Rogers; Ferdinand Walbaum

Germanapprentices coming to the U.S. and four U.S. interns working and studying in Germany was verysuccessful. The initial UCF students continued part-time work at Siemens during their senior yearand were offered full-time employment upon graduation. Not only did the German studentscomplete their work, but some of them returned for employment in the U.S.Siemens, as a multinational enterprise, is preparing technologists and engineers to understandproduct design and manufacturing for integrated systems in international markets. Students willbenefit from an understanding of the systems, standards, and cultures involved. The internshipmodel being developed uses the best from the German and U.S. systems and merits further studyand implementation.INTRODUCTIONThe

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Dixon

along in their careers, they may beresponsible for divisions or entire companies that are producers of goods. To understandthe production of excellent products, one must understand the essence of excellence fromthe perspectives of both producers (from the design and manufacturing vantages) as wellas consumers. The course fits well within a manufacturing program because it highlightsthe importance of design. If the design is poor, average or good at best, manufacturingcannot make it better than it is. If excellent, manufacturing can certainly make a designless than it should be.Excellence in Product Design – A Unique ApproachI graduated in 1994 from St. Thomas having earned the Master of ManufacturingSystems Engineering (MMSE) degree. I was

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alicia Townsend; Renate Fruchter

deployment of collaboration technologies that include Web-based team building, project memory, and corporate memory, and mobile solutions for global teamwork and e- Learning. She is the leader and developer of the innovative "Computer Integrated A/E/C" course launched in 1993 and currently offered in a global setting including universities in US, Japan and Europe. Alicia Townsend. Alicia Townsend is a graduate student in the Learning, Design, and Technology (LDT) Program, in the School of Education, at Stanford University. She is doing her LDT internship in the PBL Lab and brings a strong background in ethnographic studies. Page 7.627.15“Proceedings

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Subrata Roy; Karim Nasr; K. Joel Berry

Engineering Education”undergraduate instructional methodology with applied research, and supplement classroomteaching with real- world design problems. The integration of design and real- life applicationsinto the course material brings a whole new dimension to the students’ understanding of the wayfluid-thermal systems behave. In addition, this pedagogical framework introduces essence offluid mechanics and heat transfer into thermodynamics via assigned (suggested) projects.The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) directs every engineeringprogram to a set of outcomes that all graduates must have [10]. These set of outcomes (a-k) are asfollows:(a) an ability to apply knowledge of ma thematics, science, and engineering;(b) an

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Yuille

“courses” provide the advisers with leverage to ensure that the projects are completed withinbudget, on schedule and at a high level of quality. There is also a move to make advising aproject team part of the tenure process. One day, advising a project will be considered a longwith research and instruction in evaluating a professor for tenure. Clarkson’s Civil andEnvironmental Engineering department has already taken the faculty reward system one stepfurther by making the Environmental Design project a formal course counting as part of thefaculty adviser’s work load. The team participants also receive course credits that count towardthe graduation requirement. Senior mechanical engineering students are able to use SPEED projects as their

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kisha Johnson; Grace Mack; John Wheatland

, 52% Summer Research, etc. I made mathematics a priority 51% I always thought positively, acted positively 50% I asked an upper level student or the student support staff for help/advice 48% I set goals and established priorities; I organized my time 44% I always did my best to get the best grade possible 43% I did everything possible to be successful in mathematics 42% I followed the syllabus in my classes –maintained the course schedule 39% I balanced study/work/leisure

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ofodike Ezekoye; John Doggett; J. Nolen; John Butler; Steven Nichols

engineering ideas and concepts to practical problems.It became evident in the development of the project based curriculum that one aspect of project Page 7.35.1based learning that is not typically addressed in engineering curricula is the integration of Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationengineering ideas into a larger business framework. The disconnect between the coupling ofbusiness/market forces and engineering training is often seen in the product design process.Engineering training often

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William M. Pottenger; Soma Roy; Shreeram A. Sahasrabudhe; Qiang Wang; Jeffrey J. Heigl; G. Drew Kessler; David R. Gevry

classes in connection with object-oriented design. In the past,graduate students have found it difficult to master this material from lecture and textbooks alone.Our premise is that multimedia will help students understand the material better, objectively, andalso improve their design of actual ADTs to solve a problem.* This project is funded by National Science Foundation (Grant Number EIA-0087977) Page 7.364.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationFor CS0/1, we began revising both the